Overview
- Urarinas mothers marched in Iquitos, giving authorities three days to declare a sanitary emergency and deploy medical teams to the Chambira river zone.
- Indigenous federations report at least 52 recent child deaths in remote Urarinas communities, blaming absent care and delayed vaccination campaigns.
- Loreto’s regional health office says the Chambira outbreak continues to grow even as pertussis trends fall in other provinces.
- Health Minister Luis Quiroz says there is no mass contagion nationally and that only two of 52 national pertussis deaths between January and October occurred in Chambira.
- The ministry cites S/4.5 million for emergency care, S/200,000 for Chambira logistics and vaccine coverage rising to 80%, while local leaders call a S/150,000 allocation insufficient and urge civic flights because low rivers and a lack of roads block brigades.